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McCain Authors Web Data Bill would require sites to disclose what will happen to all that personal date collected.

The Anagram Genius Server

Some UNIX histories:

• The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System at Bell-Labs, where it all started
• A Brief History of Unix By Charles Severance
• A Brief History of UNIX by Mike Loukides
• History of Unix by Nick Moffitt, the Crackmonkey edition

The Beginning of Web Design, a rebuttle to End of Web Design

Why shouldn’t it come directly to me, in a user experience that’s uniquely tailored to my needs?

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Familiar and Unfamiliar Quotations

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation, imagine what PowerPoint can do to your next presentation.

[via CamWorld]

Re: Why Stephen King is cool

The issue is them being a gatekeeper, a warden, a centralized force coming between me and the artist. A middleman. The net doesn’t need middlemen. It doesn’t need the overhead, whether financially or logistically. It doesn’t need the inefficiency, whether financially or logistically. There’s nothing to be gained by allowing entities, whether personal, corporate, or governmental, to “intermediate” our transactions online unless they are performing some service that is useful to both parties, e.g. escrow or brokerage.

InterBase has been OpenSourced under a similar to Mozilla.

Re: New Generation?

This new notion is that we may NOT have to do without. Why should we have to do without having a copy of the Magna Carta in our house? We can have it. Easy. Or the compleat works of Shakespeare? Or Milton? Or Hemingway? Or King? Whoops… we crossed a line there. Why? Because King and his publishing house aren’t dead?

Re: New Generation?

Yeah the Kids Are All Right, it’s the old farts that have the rotten values and do the irresponsible things.

How a Hybrid Car Works on Howstuffworks.com, enjoy engel.